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Tata Communications achieves record growth for business Volume

4 March, 2010

In 2008, we launched Tata Communications with a vision to deliver a new world of communications to our customers and partners. We recognized that the shift to emerging markets was well underway, not just as sources of labor arbitrage but as markets of growing consumption. It was also undeniably clear that technologies, particularly Internet-based ones, were becoming an integral part of our lives and business processes. Their impact was to be felt in the way we communicated, collaborated, developed knowledge, shared and consumed content, as individuals and businesses. There was also an emerging trend, particularly amongst many businesses, to focus on activities that were core while partnering with other specialists for delivering other services. Even before the word recession was mentioned, many businesses had begun their journey towards new sources of growth and efficiency. We sought to be their communications’ partner in this journey into the New World.

Tata Communications at a Glance

World’s largest wholesale international voice carrier:

• 32 billion voice minutes; 1,600 service provider customers

Largest submarine cable operator

• Over 20 Tbps design capacity; over 8 Tbps lit capacity

One of the largest global Internet backbones

• One in six Internet connections goes through Tata Communications’ networks

Over a million sq ft of data center and co-location space

• Over 10,000 racks in over 40 centers around the world

Tata Communications maintains steady revenues

In spite of large price-cuts and customers discounts, Tata Communications’ revenues increased across its voice and data services while most other players in the telecom industry had low single digit growth, if at all. (Note: Growth rates based on INR reported numbers).

Tata Communications grows global workforce by 600

Tata Communications’ globally distributed employee-base grew 10% this year. About 20% of Tata Communications’ employees are located outside India, mostly in sales, marketing, product management and technology development and the company’s leadership team comprises about 50 executives represented by 10 nationalities dispersed over 12 cities in eight countries.

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